Wonderbook: The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction

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"This all-new definitive guide to writing imaginative fiction takes a completely novel approach and fully exploits the visual nature of fantasy through original drawings, maps, renderings, and exercises to create a spectacularly beautiful and inspiring object. Employing an accessible, example-rich approach, Wonderbook energizes and motivates while also providing practical, nuts-and-bolts information needed to improve as a writer. Aimed at aspiring and intermediate-level writers, Wonderbook includes helpful sidebars and essays from some of the biggest names in fantasy today, such as George R. R. Martin, Lev Grossman, Neil Gaiman, Michael Moorcock, Catherynne M. Valente, and Karen Joy Fowler, to name a few"--

subjects: Rhetoric,  Literature,  Study and teaching,  Imagery (Psychology),  English language,  Originality in literature,  Imagination,  Aesthetics,  Creative writing (Higher education),  Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.),  English language, rhetoric,  English language, study and teaching,  Creative writing,  LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays,  REFERENCE / Writing Skills,  LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Composition & Creative Writing,  Creative writing (elementary education),  English language--rhetoric--study and teaching,  Literature--aesthetics,  Reference--writing skills,  Language arts & disciplines--composition & creative writing,  Literary collections--essays,  Pe1404 .v35 2013,  808.3,  REFERENCE,  Writing Skills,  LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES,  Composition & Creative Writing,  LITERARY COLLECTIONS,  Essays